Suburbs toughen stance on 4th of July parade dibs (Chicago Tribune)

1 July 2008, 4:13 am

The feeding frenzy began when an Arlington Heights resident casually marked off a piece of parkway ground with stakes and ropes three days before last year's 4th of July parade.... read more

No dibs for July 4th parade (Chicago Tribune)

30 June 2008, 9:42 pm

Arlington Heights residents have been asked not to lay claim to prime parade-watching ground dearlier than 7 p.m. Thursday. The suburb follows a route blazed by Evanston in taking a tougher stand on the practice of declaring "dibs."... read more

Blagojevich Signs Preschool Funding Bill (NBC 5 Chicago)

30 June 2008, 3:42 pm

Gov. Rod Blagojevich has signed an early childhood learning bill that will continue funding preschools across Illinois.... read more

Gun advocates: City's gun ban won't hold up (Beloit Daily News)

30 June 2008, 6:42 am

CHICAGO (AP) -- Mayor Richard Daley and gun control advocates have lined up predicting more innocent lives lost if the city's handgun ban is overturned, but David Sigale isn't buying it.... read more

Companies try to fill gaps for veterans (Daily Herald)

29 June 2008, 10:58 pm

Preparing for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 300 Illinois Marine reservists found themselves in Kuwait poised for combat but without tools to maintain their vehicles.... read more

SAF Files Lawsuit Challenging Chicago's Handgun Ban (Centre Daily Times)

27 June 2008, 6:30 am

Following Thursday's 5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual civil right to keep and bear arms, and that a municipal gun ban violates that right, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Illinois State R... read more